Chapter 44

Cam immediately reached from his spot on top of the bed and pushed Sasha over. “Kill joy,” he grinned.

The familiar sound of Sasha’s joyful chuckling erupted then and, when the redhead finally righted himself and sat up, Nathan got a truly good look at what Sasha used to be.Happy. Nathan knew how happy the adult Sasha could make himself look even when he was breaking, but there was no hidden sadness in this younger version. Not in the way it haunted him now.

Nathan couldn’t help glancing at the real Sasha who had seated himself on the floor near Lindsey with his back to the door. Sasha’s shoulders were tight despite the otherwise relaxed position.

“You just wanna go to high school to meet your dream girl,” the younger Sasha began, clambering on top of the bed next to Cam, and looking surprisingly skinny and slight. “Sorry, dude, but Buffy is a fictional character. There is no sexy slayer chick waiting for you in California. And if there was, she’d probably try to kill you anyway.”